Run for Your Life (Yellowjackets album)

Run for Your Life is an album by the American jazz group Yellowjackets, released in 1994. The album reached a peak position of number eight on Billboard Top Contemporary Jazz Albums chart. It was nominated for a Grammy Award, in the "Best Contemporary Jazz Performance" category.

Critical reception
The Globe and Mail opined that "only tenor saxophonist Bon Mintzer's 'The Red Sea' is particularly memorable." The Charlotte Observer called Run for Your Life "the best jazz album of the year," writing that it "is a collection of nine simply superior jazz cuts, each showing off the band's precision and ability."

Personnel
Yellowjackets
 * Russell Ferrante – keyboards
 * Jimmy Haslip – bass, vocals
 * Will Kennedy – drums
 * Bob Mintzer – soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone, bass clarinet, EWI

Additional musicians
 * Steve Croes – Synclavier
 * Judd Miller – synthesizer programming
 * Robben Ford – guitars

Production

 * Yellowjackets – producers
 * Mick Guzauski – recording engineer
 * James Farber – recording engineer, mixing
 * Richard Landers – assistant engineer
 * Gil Morales – assistant engineer
 * Chad Blinman – mix assistant
 * Joseph Doughney – post-production engineer
 * Michael Landy – post-production engineer
 * Kevin Gray – mastering
 * Sally G. Poppe – production coordinator
 * Margi Denton – design
 * Tim Lewis – illustration
 * Philip Avery Noble – photography

Studios
 * Recorded at O'Henry Sound Studios (Burbank, CA) and The Complex (Los Angeles, CA).
 * Mixed at The Complex
 * Mastered at Location Recording Service (Burbank, CA).
 * Post-Production at The Review Room (New York, NY).